Pictures ‘Tainted” With Cotton

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 30, 26 August 1949, Page 7

Pictures ‘Tainted” With Cotton

Instead of using paint like most artists, Mrs Marguerite Sease, of Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.A., “paints” with the fluffy fibres of cotton. After colouring the cotton with iodine, ink, shoe polish, and even dust from the windowsill, she creates realistic pictures which have won high praise. To make cotton figures, Mrs Sease skilfully presses dabs of cotton on backgrounds of velvet, corduroy, or burlap. Jler cotton pictures include attractive southern plantation scenes, ships at sea, winter scenes in the country, the birds and flowers o£* South Carolina, and portraits of actual people. • The pictures range m size from six feet high to one inch square, and they are sold to help various charitable organisations. Mrs Sease says the idea of cotton painting as a hobby came to her one day when she absent-mindedly shaped her initials in cotton on her coat sleeve. She has recently been introducing bed-ridden children in the Shrine Hospital for Crippled Children, Greenville, to this’ new form of art. Several of the little students have already passed the elementary stage.